ABSTRACT
The investigation so far has suggested that the primitive relationship of coconsciousness is the key to understanding the unity of consciousness. This finding is at best preliminary, since the investigation has so far been concerned only with the unity within experience at a given moment, and this is only half the story: there is unity in experience over time as well as at a time. A typical stream of consciousness is a continuous succession of experiences which lasts for some hours. How are these successive experiences related? What is it about them which makes them parts of the same stream, or co-streamal (for want of a convenient expression)? It may well be that answering these questions will amount to more than half the story about the unity of consciousness, for as I have already remarked, to even consider synchronic unity in isolation is to risk a distorted view of the phenomena. Consciousness is not a static but a flowing thing, it is never still but always on the move. To gain a full understanding of the unity within experience we must take the plunge, into the turbulent dynamics of the stream of consciousness proper.
